Humanity Forward
One Year After the Expiration of the Enhanced Child Tax Credit, What All Have We Learned About Its Effects?
Summary: The monthly Child Tax Credit payments did not reduce employment, but what they did do was reduce hunger and increase entrepreneurship, and if made permanent would likely generate far greater benefits than its cost, and reduce domestic abuse of women and children. A Year in Review for the Child
Today’s Child Tax Credit Versus the Family Security Act 2.0
The enhanced child tax credit whose monthly cash payments of $250 to $300 per kid cut child poverty by a third, did not reduce employment, did not contribute to inflation, but did increase entrepreneurship, and did decrease drug use, and did decrease the number of parents selling their plasma to
How the Baby Formula Crisis Helps Show the Difference Between Cash and Benefits-in-Kind
Depending on where you live, and when you read this, you may have noticed that baby formula is the latest thing for your local grocery store to be entirely out of. You may have also noticed a lot of blame being thrown around in the usual partisan ways from immigrants
How the Monthly Child Tax Credit Reduced the Level of Desperation in America
With the enhanced CTC, fewer parents resorted to selling their blood plasma and paying 391% interest rates in order to feed and house their families Money is protection. When we have enough of it, it can be an all-purpose shield, able to protect us from all kinds of things. Protection
The Monthly Child Tax Credit Gave Birth to New Entrepreneurs
It’s no coincidence that during the pandemic, entrepreneurship increased in the United States by 23%, which was more than any other advanced economy. Read this post on the Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2022/02/the-monthly-child-tax-credit-gave-birth-to-new-entrepreneurs/] blog. The Monthly Child Tax Credit Gave Birth to New EntrepreneursIt’s no
The Rise of Omicron is Grounds for Extending the Monthly Child Tax Credit
The end of CTC payments will also mean the end of employment for some parents, right when times are most difficult due to an Omicron wave. This post can be read on the Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2022/01/omicron-rise-is-grounds-for-extending-the-child-tax-credit/] blog. The Rise of Omicron is Grounds for Extending
Understanding Pandemic Inflation: How to Best Reduce and Alleviate It
It would be a mistake to misdiagnose our inflation as mostly a demand problem instead of mostly a supply problem. This post can be read on the Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2021/11/understanding-pandemic-inflation-how-to-best-reduce-and-alleviate-it/] blog. Understanding Pandemic Inflation: How to Best Reduce and Alleviate It“It would be a
How Work Requirements are Actually Anti-Work and Why the Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit is Pro-Work
The fully-refundable CTC is a better way. It needs to stay. This post was originally published on Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2021/11/how-work-requirements-are-actually-anti-work-and-why-the-fully-refundable-child-tax-credit-is-pro-work/] . Won’t people stop working if they receive income independent of work? That’s always one of the first questions asked in regards to any
The Eviction Moratorium was Never the Answer. Cash Is.
Trust the American people with the financial freedom to make their own decisions with money. One of those decisions will most certainly be paying the rent or mortgage. This post was originally published on Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2021/08/the-eviction-moratorium-was-never-the-answer-cash-is/] . The pandemic has been one massive disaster, containing
Monthly Child Tax Credit Payment Will Likely Grow the Economy
America’s 6-month experiment with what is essentially a universal basic income for kids will grow the economy, reduce unemployment, and help make the case to make it permanent, increase the amount provided, and implement a full UBI. This post was originally published on Humanity Forward [https://humanityforward.com/2021/
